NIGHTS DREAM SUMMARY This play is a love story that is split between four sets of lovers; Hippolyta and Theseus‚ Hermia and Lysander‚ Helena and Demetrius and Titania and Oberon. The story begins with a distraught father‚ Egeus‚ asking the Duke‚ Thesus‚ to bring the law upon his daughter ’s‚ Hermia’s‚ head. His request is made because he wants her to marry Demetrius and she has disobeyed him by seeing Lysander in secret. The Duke gives Hermia up to the day of his wedding to decide to obey her father
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feelings; Helena loves Demetrius but Demetrius loves Hermia. The two men love the same women‚ which leaves Hermia with no one. “The course of true love never did run smooth (Shakespeare).” Love is sometimes fast‚ short and brief. Love does not care about class difference or age difference. Helena keeps throwing herself at Demetrius‚ but the more she throws herself at him the more he hates her. Helena cannot seem to figure out why that is though. She is as beautiful and wealthy as Hermia. Helena becomes
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minimally‚ the amount that they helped contribute to the relationships‚ and happiness of the characters exceeds all the issues they may have caused. Within the play; Demetrius displays an immense hate towards Helena‚ and caused many problems between the relationships of others throughout the play. In the play Demetrius said to Helena “I love thee not‚ therefore pursue me not” (2.1.
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queen of the Amazons. Like Theseus (the Duke of Athens). The character Egeus‚ marches into Theseus’s court with his daughter‚ Hermia‚ and two young men‚ Demetrius and Lysander. Demetrius is in love with Hermia‚ and also in love with Helena. And Lysander‚ a childhood friend of Helena‚ is in love with Hermia. Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius but Hermia is in love with Lysander and refuses to cooperate with her father’s decision. Theseus gets angry‚ but gives Hermia until his wedding day to think
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protagonists in the play is Helena. Helena is a desperate lover. In the play‚ Helena tells Demetrius‚ the man she loves‚ about Hermia‚ the woman Demetrius loves‚ and Lysander’s plan to elope. “For ere Demetrius look’d on Hermia’s eyne‚ He hail’d down oaths that he was only mine…” She says this because she plans to try to make Demetrius fall in love with her while he tries to stop Hermia from eloping. In the process‚ she exposes her best friend’s plan just to get a man. Helena is also insecure. “Sickness
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difficulties that may surface‚ problems can always be solved‚ like many problems solved in Shakespeare’s play. The play takes place in Athens‚ where the four lovers‚ Demetrius‚ Helena‚ Lysander‚ and Hermia reside. Lysander and Hermia truly love each other‚ and plans to elope when Hermia’s father wishes an arranged marriage between Helena and another
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Night’s Dream”‚ one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies‚ is generally thought of as a comical romance. A very important factor that makes the whole play a comedy‚ is magic‚ which is used to affect the lives of four Athenians: Hermia‚ Lysander‚ Helena and Demetrius. Bottom‚ also a simple human‚ falls victim of the fairies’ mischievous magic. The magic reaches these characters by Puck‚ a naughty fairy‚ and Oberon‚ the king of fairies. Puck decides to cast a spell on Bottom‚ making him grow a donkey head
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difficulties with their relationship due to Puck’s mistake with the love potion‚ and Hermia’s father’s disapproval of Lysander. Hermia and Lysander wish to marry‚ but Egeus‚ Hermia’s father‚ wants he to marry Demetrius. Demetrius also loves Hermia‚ but Helena‚ Hermia’s friend‚ loves Demetrius. In addition‚ troubles
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Hermia (beloved of Lysander) Helena (in love with Demetrius) Demetrius (in love with Hermia). A Midsummer’s Nights Dream is about Theseus the Duke of Athens announcing he will marry Hippolyta‚ in four days. Theseus hears Ageus’ complaint that his daughter Hermia refuses to marry his chosen suitor. Theseus declares Hermia must marry Demetrius‚ or choose between death and joining a nunnery. Lysander tells Hermia to flee to the forest with him to marry. Hermia’s friend‚ Helena‚ learns of this and decides
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story of Theseus and Hippolyta. Theseus has fought many battles and risked his life in order to win Hippolyta:"I woo’d thee with my sword / And won thy love‚ doing thee injuries." Next we have the pair of romantic lovers Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius who undergo many trials before they are united Finally‚ we have the fairy couple Oberon and Titania who are finally reconciled after a long period of separation. What is common to all these different ’love stories’ is the fact that the course
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